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Ethos
Moral and ethical character
Plainchant
A unison unaccompanied song
Victimae paschali laudes
Neume
Sign used in the notation of chant to indicate a certain number of notes and general melodic direction
Solmization
Method of assigning syllables to steps in a scale, makes it easier to identify and sing whole and semitones
Liturgy
Prescribed body of texts to be spoken or sung and ritual actions to be performed in a religious service
Mass
The most important service of the Catholic church
Mass for christmas day
Mass Proper
Texts of the Mass that are assigned to a particular day in the Church Calendar
Mass Ordinary
Texts of the Mass that remain the same on most or all days of the Church calendar, the tunes may change
Office
Series of 8 prayer services of the Roman church, celebrated daily at specified times Matins Lauds Prime Terce Sext Nones Vespers Compline Vespers for Christmas Day
Psalm tone
Melodic formula for singing psalms in the office
Antiphon
Liturgical chant that comes before and after a psalm in the office
Tecum principium
Responsorial
Manner of performing in which a soloist alternates with a group
Antiphonal
Manner of performing in which 2 or more groups alternate
Direct
Manner of performing chant without alternating
Syllabic
One note / syllable of text
Neumatic
Chant having about 1-7 notes sung to each syllable of text
Melismatic
Has lots of melismas
Trope
Adding words, melody, a melisma, or just words to a chant
Quem queritis in presepe
Sequence
Latin chant that follows the Alleluia in some masses. Restatement of a pattern, melodic or harmonic, on successive or different pitch levels
Rex caeli domine
Liturgical Drama
Dialogue on a sacred subject set to music, usually performed with action, linked to liturgy
Quem pueritis in presepe
Goliard song
Songs associated to the Goliards
Chanson de Geste
Medieval french epic recounting the deeds of national heros
Jongleur
Medieval musician or street entertainer
Troubadour
Poet-composer of southern france who wrote monophonic songs in occitan